Fowl Play Ranch

Farm Description

450 acres, Multiple income-producing Estate. Very Unique opportunity. This property boasts a beautiful rambler-style home, an inground swimming pool, and a newer hot tub, all set on a nicely landscaped yard. Also included are two large metal buildings over 2,000 sq. ft. with ample storage for all your toys and gear. 140 acres are irrigated with two pivots and wheel lines, producing hay and alfalfa, multiple cuttings per season.

Land

450 acres with approximately 140 acres irrigated with 2 pivots and 2 wheel lines. 300 acres consists of range ground and wetlands with numerous ponds bordering Crab Creek which is know for being the longest creek in North America.

Grant County boasts some of the best upland bird and migratory waterfowl hunting in the country. We are eastern Washington's top duck producer and the state's top goose-hunting spot.

Improvements

The 2280 sq ft rambler features 4 bedrooms with 2 baths with a fenced back yard and an in ground pool. There are 2 shops with plenty of room for parking your cars, toys or equipment. The ranch is near all the amenities Moses Lake has to offer including being a short distance from the Grant County International Airport.

Recreation

Spring Festival Memorial Day weekend

Moses Lake Water Sports Festival June first held in June 2008

Lion's Field, located Downtown near Frontier Middle School, was remodeled after a voter-approved levy. FieldTurf was installed and the first game held on the new turf was a soccer game between the Moses Lake Chiefs and the Wenatchee Panthers. The Football team opened the completed stadium on September 12, 2008.

Brews and Tunes First held in February 2018

Moses Lake Sand Dunes are open year-round to 4 4 and ORV enthusiasts. The Sand Dunes bring people from all over the world to play in the sand

With our abundance of sunshine, golfing is available almost year-round. There are a variety of fine courses here designed for players of every skill level.

Grant County is home to 85 lakes with over 247,000 surface acres of water on or near Moses Lake. It's no wonder why fishing is a favorite local pastime. Many of the lakes including Moses Lake are open for year-round fishing. Local waters offer walleye, trout, bass, perch, crappie, catfish and more.

Grant County boasts some of the best upland bird and migratory waterfowl hunting in the country. We are eastern Washington's top duck producer and the state's top goose-hunting spot. There are several options available to duck and goose hunters on public land also.

Agriculture

The ranch is currently being used for the production of alfalfa, corn and raising cattle

Region & Climate

Moses Lake has a dry climate, and is classed as a semi-arid climate. It is warm during summer, when temperatures tend to be in the 80s F and somewhat cold during winter, when temperatures tend to be in the 30s F. The warmest month is July, with an average maximum temperature of 88.20 F 31.22 C. The coldest month is January, with an average minimum temperature of 21.70 F 5.72 C.

Temperature variations between night and day are greater during summer 27 F 15 C, and less during winter 14 F 7.8 C.

The annual average precipitation at Moses Lake is 7.69 inches 195 mm. Although rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, it is not unusual in mid-summer for a month or six weeks to pass without any measurable rainfall. 17 The wettest month is December with an average rainfall of 1.19 inches 30 mm.

History

Before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River in 1941 and Moses Lake Army Air Base in 1942 the area was largely barren. Native Americans knew the area as Houaph, which meant willow. Chief Moses was leader of the Sinkiuse tribe from 1859 to 1899, and was forced to negotiate with white settlers who began to settle in the area in the 1880S. Under pressure from the government, Chief Moses traded the Columbia Basin land for a reservation that stretched from Lake Chelan north to the Canada-US border. The government later traded again for what is now the Colville Indian Reservation.

The new settlers named the lake in honor of Chief Moses. The city was originally named Neppel, after a town in Germany where one of the original settlers had lived. 8 The first settlers established fisheries and farms - some of the first exported items were carp, jackrabbits and fruit - but irrigation attempts failed and settlers left at about the same rate as they came. When the town was incorporated and renamed Moses Lake in 1938, the population was estimated at 302 people. 9

The arrival of the air base in 1942 and irrigation water pumped from Grand Coulee Dam in 1955 offered newcomers a reason and a way to settle in an area that previously had little to offer other than good fishing and a place to water sheep and cattle. Moses Lake was quickly transformed into a hub for a vast region where transportation, agriculture and recreation came together. 10

The air base was built to train World War II pilots to fly the P-38 Lightning and B-17 Flying Fortress, two planes that were essential to the war effort. The base was closed after the war ended, but reopened in 1948 as a U.S. Air Force base and test area for Boeing's B-47 Stratojet and B-50 Superfortress.

The B-47 tests led to development of modern commercial jetliners still used today. Fighter jets were stationed there to protect Grand Coulee Dam to the north and the Hanford site to the south. Boeing still uses the airport as a test and evaluation facility for its aircraft. Japan Airlines used the airport as a training area from November 1968 until March 2009. The old air base is now owned by the Port of Moses Lake and is home to Grant County International Airport, Big Bend Community College and several businesses.

Farmers, meanwhile, had developed new methods to irrigate water from the lake and from the Columbia River and began planting expansive irrigated acreage. When the Columbia Basin Project began to deliver water to the area in the mid-1950s, farms expanded by thousands of acres, growing potatoes, corn, onions, carrots and sugar beets.

In little more than a decade, Moses Lake's population grew from 300 to 2,679 in 1950. Today, the population is 25,146 2020 census.

Location

Moses Lake is bisected by two major highways that bypass the city center Interstate 90 and State Route 17. State Route 171 and Interstate 90 Business serve the city's downtown, connecting to the two highways

Larson Air Force Base, five miles from the city of Moses Lake, originally was named Moses Lake Army Air Base. It was activated on 24 November 1942 as a World War II training center. Major Donald A. Larson, for whom the base was later renamed, was from Yakima, Washington.

The Secretary of Defense announced on November 19, 1965, that Larson was to be closed by June of the following year. Larson Air Force Base, since renamed Grant County International Airport, is now a world-class heavy jet training and testing facility used by the Boeing Company, the U.S. military and Nasa. 27 The airport had hosted Japan's national carrier, Japan Airlines, from 1968 to 2008 for the training of its pilots, co-pilots, and flight engineers due to lack of runway space at airports in Japan to do touch and goes with jumbo jets. 28 Columbia Pacific Aviation now handles charter passenger service to and from Moses Lake. 29 With 4,700 acres 1,900 ha and a main runway 13,500 feet 4,110 m long, it is one of the largest airports in the United States.

Moses Lake is also served by the much smaller municipal airport, which has one runway.